SHINING : FÖDD FÖRLORARE Spinefarm Records Hey Niklas, when’s the album coming out? Hey… Niklas? The album. The new album. Niklas. Hey, Niklas. HEY. NIKLAS. And so on, and so forth. I think Shining have always inspired a special kind of devotion. By the time “The Eerie Cold” was released, there was a diminutive but [...]
Archive for June, 2011
CD Review – Devin Townsend Project: Deconstruction
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DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT : DECONSTRUCTION Hevy Devy Records/InsideOut Devin Townsend… contrary beast that he is… arch prankster, musician extraordinaire, inventive madman, creative genius… a man who wears his heart and mind on his sleeve… what’s not to love about him and his amazing musical output? Well exactly. So, here we have two DT albums, released [...]
CD Review – Devin Townsend Project: Ghost
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DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT : GHOST Century Media Records So, now to the final album of the “Ki/Addicted/Deconstruction…” quadrilogy… the extraordinary, blissful, beautiful, soulful, ambient, mellow, (YES ‘Pretty’) and utterly magnificent “Ghost”, and what an absolute gem it is too! As far removed from “Deconstruction” as it’s humanely possible to get. Forget all the excesses that [...]
CD Review – Nader Sadek: In The Flesh
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NADER SADEK Season of Mist Oh the delicious irony… I’m trying not to laugh… but failing! Morbid Angel are reunited with their much cherished ‘classic’ vocalist and produce an album so less than average that it’s almost a car crash, and their much maligned cast-off vocalist comes out with an album that absolutely rips and [...]
CD Review – Byfrost: Of Death
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BYFROST : OF DEATH AFM Records It’s by no means a new thought I’m about to express, but just what is it they put it in the city of Bergen’s water? It seems to hold the key that unlocks primal savagery that then runs unfettered through the veins of Metal musicians who live in the [...]
CD Review – 66Crusher: Blackest Day
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66CRUSHER : BLACKEST DAY Misanthropica Okay…so I’ll put my hand up, if not for my two ranking Metal Queens Ellen Simpson and Patricia Thomas, I would never have heard of this remarkable band, and for that, to those two exceptional ladies… I owe a huge debt of gratitude! (your cheque’s in the mail – Editor) [...]
CD Review – Morbid Angel: Illud Divinum Insanus
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MORBID ANGEL : ILLUD DIVINUM INSANUS Season of Mist Eight years have passed since we last heard a studio album from the Floridian ‘Ancient Ones’, (2003’s “Heretic”), and a huge sixteen years has been and gone since Morbid Angel (fronted by the inimitable David Vincent last released a studio album (“Domination” obviously), and finally… FINALLY [...]